Using the Practice Management assigned ID and storing that ID as the Health Record Number (HRN) in VistA is EXACTLY the right thing to do! Some of the patches to VOE (soon to come out as Class I patches to VistA FOIA) are based on how Indian Health Service uses the HRN.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Michael Towry Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:40 PM To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] What is the best (automated) way to update existing patient records? Granted that having a patient ID that will be unique throughout all time and space is not an insignificant problem. However, what I'm trying to deal with here is a much smaller subset of that universal domain. That is, a small office with a practice management system already assigns patient IDs that are unique within their particular instance of the system. Ideally, they could just store that ID away in some available field of the Vista patient record when adding it (via import of a CSV-file generated by the practice management system) and use that as a unique identifier when synching patient data from the practice management system to Vista. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
